Word: cur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice sessions invariably attract a fenceful of admiring fans, they some times end their workouts with some un abashed on-court smooching. An evening date usually consists of a movie and a McDonald's cheeseburger. Recently Chrissie won a major concession from her strict parents: her 11 p.m. cur few was moved back to midnight...
Englewood, N.J., Child Psychoanalyst Ira Mintz reports the feeling among many young people that they are not yet ready for sex; yet they soon discover that society expects them to embrace the new "freedom." For students, Mintz says, "there is no place to hide, no cur few behind which to take refuge, no rule that can be invoked without loss of face." Both men and women feel the pressure. Gynecologist David Chapin, consultant to a coeducational boarding school near Boston, suspects that when it comes to bragging about sexual exploits, "the girls' locker room has replaced...
...intrinsic appeal, the cur rent revival of Cyrano is less than wholly satisfying. For mystifying reasons, the play has been converted into a musical. Since the songs are clumsily inserted into the text, they simply interrupt the narrative flow. The music was composed by Michael J. Lewis and he has the soaring melodic imagination of a computer. The lyrics, supplied by Anthony Burgess, lean more toward economy than eloquence, and while Burgess's adaptation of the main body of the text is brisk and fluently idiomatic, it is emotionally reserved and poetically undernourished...
...prose: "As Sir David and I had agreed, summer was wearing on, and after summer one must expect autumn." Yet she possesses a ruthlessly unsentimental, almost primeval attachment to the retarded child, whose still, strange presence dominates her life - until the mother returns with blithe hopes and confident of "cur ing" the innocent by psychotherapy...
...style pajama suit. De Gaulle murmured to Malraux, "What luck, a soldier!" Then to Bardot he said, "What good fortune, madame. You are in uniform and I am in civilian clothes!" Another tale recounts the time the nearsighted general plunged into a crowd without his glasses. "Bonjour, monsieur le curé," he said to one man, apparently taking him for a priest. "But, mon général, I'm your gorille [bodyguard]." "Alors," said De Gaulle, "bonjour, monsieur le gorille...